Love the combination of mannequin and animal heads – it makes you look twice as you’re hurry down Oxford Street!

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One of my favourite fashion designers, Hussein Chalayan, is exhibiting at the Design Museum- I HAD to go! Having never seen his work up close before I was mesmerised by what I saw. Mannequins dressed in his previous collections were all “busy at work”, some painting walls, others cleaning glass. His quirky designs and concepts were oozing out of the whole exhibition.

My favourite and most inspiring collection of his was his graduate collection in 1993, entitled "The Tangent Flows", which contained garments that he had buried in his back garden and dug up again. The result was beautiful, as the whole collection had rusted and rotted feel.

Chalayan’s designs are innovative and conceptual, ranging from lazer technology to his more current 2008 collection ‘Intertia’, which explores garments that are encapsulating the moment of a crash. Another memorable collection, where he created "fashion as furniture" in 2000, entitled ‘After Words’, featured models that emerged from chairs and tables that literally transformed into dresses. He is a designer that crosses the boundaries of fashion and art, cleverly combining the two.

Chalayan describes his work as being a narrative – a form of storytelling incorporating different themes. 

Exhibition: Hussein Chalayan- From fashion and back

Design museum 22 January- 17 May 2009

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I can’t figure out if it’s okay to grab a mannequin by the breasts or neck. The breasts are actually very well placed and they’re the safest handles to use when grabbing the mannequin from behind and twisting the mannequin’s torso to remove it from the legs, yet it feels a little inappropriate…and twisting the mannequin from the neck works well but it just feels wrong…

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On Oxford Street, in the House of Fraser, on the escalator, spotted this lovely man, he was chatting to someone on the floor above & he sounds so warm and charming. I just wanted to meet him but I got a photo instead. Funny how he doesn’t look real, I love it!

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